Just to add to what Bev has said, a PACs is not a visa but a civil partnership.
If you get PACsed, you will be able to get a residency permit with working rights provided you've been PACsed for 1 year - or maybe you just have to co-habit for 1 year and also be PACsed, I'm not exactly sure. Basically a long stay visa is valid for one year, during which you don't apply for a residency permit (you just have a validated visa), but at the end of that year (of the visa's validity) and each year after you apply for a residency permit to continue to stay in the country.
As Bev said it's different with a working holiday visa because you have no choice but to leave at the end.
If I were in your position I'd probably go for the working holiday visa and get PACsed, then see where things go from there, who knows - maybe marriage might be an option?
I wish you all the best - myself I'm an Australian married to a French boy. If the whole long-distance relationship is driving you insane, I can relate. I stayed in France with him for two months, then we were apart for 5, he came over here on a working holiday visa and we got married last year.
If you get PACsed, you will be able to get a residency permit with working rights provided you've been PACsed for 1 year - or maybe you just have to co-habit for 1 year and also be PACsed, I'm not exactly sure. Basically a long stay visa is valid for one year, during which you don't apply for a residency permit (you just have a validated visa), but at the end of that year (of the visa's validity) and each year after you apply for a residency permit to continue to stay in the country.
As Bev said it's different with a working holiday visa because you have no choice but to leave at the end.
If I were in your position I'd probably go for the working holiday visa and get PACsed, then see where things go from there, who knows - maybe marriage might be an option?
I wish you all the best - myself I'm an Australian married to a French boy. If the whole long-distance relationship is driving you insane, I can relate. I stayed in France with him for two months, then we were apart for 5, he came over here on a working holiday visa and we got married last year.
